(Photo credit: Liz Linder) Blue Heron, the Gramophone-award winning vocal ensemble, presents “Renaissance Portraits” at the First Church in Cambridge, Congregational on Jan 20. “Renaissance Portraits” consists of musical portraits of personalities portrayed in music from Italian sources by Johannes Ciconia, Guillaume Du Fay, Gilles Binchois, Antoine Busnoys, Heinrich Isaac, and other composers. The program was originally conceived as a {…}
Photo credit: Liz Linder Gramophone Award-winning chamber music ensemble, Blue Heron announced its appointment of Bobby Pape as Executive Director. Pape has worked as a nonprofit arts executive for over fifteen years, striving to promoting lesser-heard music and underrepresented creators. Most recently, Pape was Director of Development and Marketing of the Grammy Award-winning Albany Symphony. He has also served as {…}
(Photo credit: Asher + Oak Photography & Blue Heron Official Website) Margot Rood, Sophie Michaux, Laura Pudwell, and Jason McStoots star in Blue Heron’s “Le Rossignol musical.” The Renaissance and medieval vocal music ensemble’s first concert of the season features songs about “love and freedom, and nightingales and other musical birds” with works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Claude Le Jeune, {…}